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Resources

Electronic Digital Billboards

Traffic Safety Evaluation of Video Advertising Signs [1]

Scenic America's Digital Billboard page [2]

StopBillboards.com Digital Billboard page [3]

Health Effects of Light Pollution [4]

Could your city become another L.A.? Watch this 3 part PBS series and find out if digital billboards and wall wraps are prohibited in your community: [5]
Part 1 [6], Part 2 [7], Part 3 [8]

Fact Sheets

Texas Cities With No New Billboards [9]

County Billboard Facts [10]

Map of Protected Roads [11]

List of Protected Roads [12]

Billboard Control Philosophically and Legally [13]

Billboard Costs [14]

Why subsidize billboards? [15]

Scenic Byways 2005 [16]

Scenic Byways Map [17]

Texas Sign Laws

Interstates and Federal Highways

Texas Transportation Code Chapter 391 [18]

Title 43 Chapter 21, Subchapter I, Texas Regulations [19]

Rural Roads

Texas Transportation Code Chapter 394 rural roads [20]

Title 43 Chapter 21, Subchapter K, Texas Regulations [21]

City Statutes

Local Govt Code Chap 216 ETJ [22]

Illegal Signs (aka, bandit signs) in the Public ROW

Transportation Code Chapter 392 illegal signs state ROW [23]

Transportation Code Chapter 393 illegal signs public ROW [24]

Toll Roads

Transportation Code Chapter 395 certain county toll roads [25]

Billboard Complaints TxDOT Form

To report the erection of an alleged illegal billboard to TxDOT, please visit this link to the TxDOT site. Thank you for helping to keep our public roads scenic. [26]

TxDOT Outdoor Advertising Billboard Complaint Forms, Contacts, Booklet, Rules, Other Forms

Click here to find more information on Texas outdoor advertising rules, district and TxDOT contacts, and to report a suspected erection or maintenance of illegal billboards [27]

Additional Sign Laws

Sign Law.com - the latest case law around the country on sign regulation and public forum [28]

Scenic Florida's Case Law Page [29]

Quotes, Speeches and Video Essays on America the Beautiful

A video from the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations [30]

A Visual Essay by Scenic America on Urban Sign Pollution [31]

What's a world without outdoor advertising? See this video of Sao Paulo, Brazil. [32]

Eisenhower Notes for Association of National Advertisers [33]

A speech by President Lyndon Baines Johnson from October 22, 1965 [34]

"The Goodliest Land" Address by Charles Kuralt at Scenic America’s National Conference - May 12, 1997 [35]

Listen to President L.B. Johnson speak frankly about the billboard industry in a 1968 conversation with Congressman Jim Wright [36]

Other applicable quotes [37]

Vance Jackson Neighborhood, Inc.

Vance Jackson Neighborhood, Inc., a homeowners association in San Antonio: http://www.vjni.org/ [38]

Visual Clutter of Overhead Wires

Live Oaks Under Power Lines Work [39]

See more at Scenic America [40]




Source URL: http://www.scenictexas.org/resources

Links:
[1] http://scenictexasbeta.org/billboards
[2] http://www.scenic.org/billboards/digital
[3] http://www.stopbillboards.com/digital
[4] http://www.ehponline.org/members/2009/117-1/focus.html
[5] http://kcet.org/socal/2008/10/billboard-confidential.html
[6] http://kcet.org/socal/2008/10/billboard-confidential.html
[7] http://kcet.org/socal/2008/10/billboard-confidential---part-2.html
[8] http://www.kcet.org/socal/2009/01/billboard-confidential---part-3.html
[9] http://scenictexasbeta.org/files/TX Cities List March 2005.doc
[10] http://scenictexasbeta.org/files/County Billboard Facts.doc
[11] http://scenictexasbeta.org/files/Protected%20Roads.pdf
[12] http://scenictexasbeta.org/files/protected roads 1.doc
[13] http://scenictexasbeta.org/files/Billboard Control Philosophically and Legally.doc
[14] http://scenictexasbeta.org/files/Billboard Costs.doc
[15] http://www.scenictexas.org/node/109
[16] http://scenictexasbeta.org/files/Scenic Byways 2005.doc
[17] http://scenictexasbeta.org/files/Scenic Byways Map.doc
[18] http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/TN/content/pdf/tn.006.00.000391.00.pdf
[19] http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=5&ti=43&pt=1&ch=21&sch=I&rl=Y
[20] http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/TN/content/pdf/tn.006.00.000394.00.pdf
[21] http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=5&ti=43&pt=1&ch=21&sch=K&rl=Y
[22] http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/LG/content/pdf/lg.007.00.000216.00.pdf
[23] http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/TN/content/pdf/tn.006.00.000392.00.pdf
[24] http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/TN/content/pdf/tn.006.00.000393.00.pdf
[25] http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/TN/content/pdf/tn.006.00.000395.00.pdf
[26] http://www.txdot.gov/business/doing_business/outdoor_signs.htm
[27] http://www.txdot.gov/business/doing_business/outdoor_signs.htm
[28] http://www.signlaw.com
[29] http://scenicflorida.org/index.php/case-law.html
[30] http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/sustainable/av/choices_master_program_high.asx
[31] http://youtube.com/watch?v=WTEK9yr8zR4
[32] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht9GNp94WOU
[33] http://www.scenictexas.org/../../files/EisenhowerNotes.pdf
[34] http://www.scenictexas.org/../../files/LBJwords.pdf
[35] http://www.scenictexas.org/../../files/KuraltTheGoodliestLand.pdf
[36] http://www.scenictexas.org/../../files/LBJ_%2526amp%3B_Jim_Wright%2C_July_24%2C_1968%2C13214.mp3
[37] http://www.scenictexas.org/../../files/Quotes.pdf
[38] http://www.vjni.org/
[39] http://www.scenictexas.org/files/testimony-final.pdf
[40] http://www.scenic.org/utility_wires